The Paris 2024 Paralympics begin this week, with the opening ceremony on Wednesday (August 28) and the first day of competition on Thursday (August 29). The idea behind classifications is to ensure ...
Classification forms the cornerstone of the Paralympic movement and challenges the threat of one-sided and predictable competition, where the least-impaired athlete always wins. It determines which ...
The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup is on to the second round, and the number of countries competing for a gold medal has been trimmed from 32 to 16. But just because 16 countries have been eliminated ...
The Paris 2024 Paralympics are about to begin. Ahead of the games, Henry Hanson breaks down the categories used to determine which athletes are eligible to compete in a sport and how those athletes ...
With the Paris 2024 Paralympics well under way, we take a look at how the classification system works in para-sport – and how are athletes’ classifications defined? The idea behind classifications is ...
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